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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?
(a) A bowl of stew.
(b) A peace pipe.
(c) A big blanket.
(d) A buffalo skull.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 8, Lame Deer tells a big secret that he just wants to whisper and doesn't dare say aloud. What is this secret?
(a) That he once believed himself to be a great Sioux warrior.
(b) That he has seen a thunderbird up close.
(c) That the Sioux tribe doesn't exist anymore.
(d) That the Sioux are extremely bashful.

3. What was the name of Lame Deer's other grandfather besides Crazy Heart?
(a) Planter of Water.
(b) Good Fox.
(c) Did Not Butcher.
(d) Flying By.

4. What does the word heyoka mean?
(a) Rodeo.
(b) Bull.
(c) Clown.
(d) Horse.

5. Lame Deer talks about a famous chief that was named Man-Afraid-of-His-what?
(a) Horse.
(b) Cow.
(c) Arrow.
(d) Knife.

6. In Chapter 7, Pete Catches talks about his sister eating what animal's heart?
(a) Wolf.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Turtle.
(d) Dove.

7. What did Ziolkowski say he wanted to do for the Indians?
(a) He said he wanted to paint Mount Rushmore in horrible colors.
(b) He said he wanted to put up a giant statue of Crazy Horse.
(c) He said he wanted to stop work on Mount Rushmore.
(d) He said that he wanted to dedicate his work to Lame Deer.

8. Crazy Horse never let a white man take what?
(a) His bow and arrow.
(b) His picture.
(c) His freedom.
(d) His pipe.

9. Lame Deer states in the beginning of Chapter 9 that if a conjurer or witch doctor is bad, he will do what?
(a) Kill an animal and blame it on someone else.
(b) Put an evil spirit into a person.
(c) Put a sickness into you that only he can cure and then cure you for a price.
(d) Cause hatred in the tribe.

10. At the Custer battle, who had green paper in their pockets?
(a) The white generals.
(b) The white soldiers.
(c) The Indian chiefs.
(d) The Indian warriors.

11. When the holy man came back to earth in the story of the ghost dance, he began to teach the people a dance. How many songs did he have?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

12. Lame Deer states that their tribe's oldest lady had a face like what?
(a) Rippled water.
(b) The rock covered mountains.
(c) The wrinkled sheet.
(d) The Badlands.

13. When Lame Deer talks about the four square miles along the Rapid River that his great-grandfather and his tribe had taken away from them, he talks about the government missing out on a life-sized dinosaur made out of green what?
(a) Paper Mache.
(b) Wood.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Iron.

14. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?
(a) Fence builder.
(b) Sign painting.
(c) Rodeo clown.
(d) Mechanic.

15. The beginning of the ghost dance began with a sweat bath and the burning of what?
(a) Oil.
(b) Dead animals.
(c) Old wood from a sacred tree.
(d) Sweetgrass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state did the Sioux church members have to get their peyote from?

2. How many days did the ghost dance last?

3. Which direction did the sweat lodge face?

4. What church was Lame Deer a member of for five years?

5. What Sioux word means to bind or tie up?

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